tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post5838044704725649682..comments2023-07-25T01:32:51.796-07:00Comments on Beyond Evolution; Is There God After Dawkins?: WHAT WE REALLY KNOWbeyondevolutionistheregodafterdawkins.blogspotcomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625513549242420865noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-60099497632213220812012-08-04T10:29:34.057-07:002012-08-04T10:29:34.057-07:00Consciousness, being spirit and not a 'thing,&...Consciousness, being spirit and not a 'thing,' is not really divisible. Living beings are a way of giving the illusion of a separate, compartmentalized consciousness.' So we, as an inextricable part of the universal consciousness, make a decision to commit ourselves to a particular genome, a particular brain-body, culture, family and history, to experience this 'separate' existence. I do believe that an astral body is an intermediary, an energy form coming out of an idea, or many, many accumulated ideas; and the growing body fills out that form. The genes, the enormously elaborate firing patterns of the genes and the enormously elaborate and precise delivery system of the manufactured proteins, provide the 'material' to fill out those forms and forms within forms, but the astral body provides the energy blueprint that those proteins molecules along with sugars and fats, fill in. So will is our commitment to the material world and intelligence is how we manipulate the material world to fulfill our desires, but will and intelligence are not, in themselves, material. An astral body is a transitional stage between a non-physical idea or ideas and a material body just as a blue print is a transitional phase between a builder's idea and an actual building.Matt Chaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16016063540948394841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-88903491382197701162012-08-03T11:55:02.695-07:002012-08-03T11:55:02.695-07:00In my previous post (the 2 or 3 words one) I forgo...In my previous post (the 2 or 3 words one) I forgot to mention will and inteligence along with consciousness.<br /><br />If i understand you well, the more subtle and causal planes that you mention are totally imatterial. I mean, you are not talking about things like astral bodies, are you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-90539451670680702392008-08-05T14:16:00.000-07:002008-08-05T14:16:00.000-07:00I am reading now about cellular automatons. These...I am reading now about cellular automatons. These are not really cells, but cells are the word that is used to describe the one or two dimensional units of which these one or two dimensional patterns are made. Also, these 'cells' have two possibilities, black or white, or 1 or 0. The point, I think, is that if our greatest analytical minds working at their full capacity must struggle to come up with a program that reproduces a two dimensional pattern of two possibilities; why would anyone think that the physical equipment of life, which is composed of at least four dimensions (don't forget time; that each real cell is in a constant state of change, of growth, birth, death and shape change over time) of almost infinite possibilities; why would anyone think that a system of infinitely more complexity would be created, or programmed if you will, by 'no mind,' by 'no intelligence' when it took our greatest human intelligence to program the stick figure variety? <BR/>That being said, all of the above is not life. Life is that which experiences all of the above. The above is the equipment that the Creator (and don't you think anyone that intelligent deserves a capitalized name?)gave us which allows us to experience the world through this equipment.Matt Chaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16016063540948394841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-90994349567928327592008-08-04T09:41:00.000-07:002008-08-04T09:41:00.000-07:00Have you heard of cellular automaton? The program...Have you heard of cellular automaton? The program is in the positioning of the original cells, and the rules are embedded into the system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-87254327183547651892008-07-26T20:37:00.000-07:002008-07-26T20:37:00.000-07:00I found my here via Michael Prescott's blog. It wi...I found my here via Michael Prescott's blog. It will take me a long time to read and absorb everything you have written so far. You write what I have always believed. My comments for right now will be very general.<BR/><BR/>I had the experience of "no self" (it lasted for a few hours). As a programmer I tend to get absorbed in the problems I am trying model in code. I spent a restless night with my brain churning constantly all night. With no sleep, and the time to get up only a few minutes away, I begged (mentally) for just a few minutes of silence. And then my brain stopped . . .<BR/><BR/>Nothing has been the same since. And for those that think this is some glorious experience which instantly transforms you into saint, guess again. I knew during the experience that it would fade. During the experience I was OK with that. But the next day I was in a very bad place. You see, now I **knew** that I didn't know.<BR/><BR/>I went through all the stages of grief: loss of that state of consciousness. Acceptance was years in coming.<BR/><BR/>As a fellow seeker, I salute what you are attempting. Since we are all one, those parts of ourselves that are ready will find there way here.<BR/><BR/>Keep leaving the trail of bread crumbs...even if the birds come and eat them.Bill K Ramseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08017304028589362278noreply@blogger.com